Reid also said Burris, who is African-American, acknowledged that the Senate leadership's opposition to his appointment was not racial in nature.
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The mayor has long insisted the stops are based on suspicious behavior, not racial bias, and are a powerful tool for curtailing crime.
Senate Democratic leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the first black woman to run a New York state legislative conference, argues that corruption is cyclical, not racial.
"Not racial profiling or ethnic profiling, but profiling based on behavior and then, frankly, discriminating based on behavior, " he continued during the same interview.
Rudolph Giuliani, they argue, has taken the sting out of New York's racial politics, and the growing black middle class is supporting younger managerial black politicians, not racial ambulance-chasers.
Koch attributed his defeat to longevity, not racial tensions.
Or, you know, basically, groups like the ACLU argue that there still is racial bias if not extreme racial bias.
That day I made a life decision that I will not tolerate racial derogatory terms spoken to me.
The agents told authorities that Zimmerman did not use racial slurs or discriminatory language during the incident, the reports said.
However, suggests the Fed, this is not necessarily racial discrimination at work, since these groups default more often on loans.
The effort, therefore, does not represent racial profiling, according to the administration.
But police said grooming was "not a racial issue", with Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood, of Greater Manchester Police, saying the case was about "adults preying on vulnerable young children".
Jeff Carr, who heads the mayor's Gang Reduction and Youth Development program, says 90 percent of LA's gang-related crime is "primarily black on black and brown on brown, " and not across racial lines.
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However, if Mr Sharpton is in part a depressing reminder of what has not changed in racial politics, he also represents some signs of hope and not just in his dress sense.
Children began to differentiate the racial groups at around age 4, but many of the children still did not recognize the racial categories.
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So their right to return is based on their position as citizens, not on their racial identity.
Folks, the anti-LeBron sentiments which have permeated for nearly a year now do not stem from racial overtones.
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And, no, there is not an obvious racial dimension either: many blacks are still doing badly, but Latinos, who will account for one in five Americans by 2030, seem to be being assimilated just fine.
While her earlier speech did not include the racial and ethnic references that appeared in her 2001 speech, it did include references to gender and the idea that a female judge would reach a "better" conclusion than a male because of her life experience.
The inauguration of Barack Obama is not the end of racial divisions or generational tensions or global hostility.
Have you not heard the appalling racial slurs that are thrown at Asian and black players on football pitches?
Unlike the riots in Britain in the 1980s, Los Angeles in 1992 or France in 2005, these were not overtly political or racial.
New York's blacks are angry now, and America does not need to stoke its racial fires.
The key to Mr Obama's cross-racial appeal is not what he will do but who he is.
In fact, not only do such "racial profiling" practices waste limited resources, they simply make us less safe.
The president has not spoken out forcefully against racial profiling and mass incarceration.
The hard fact is that admissions to state universities in Texas do not reflect anything like the racial composition of the state.
And if the governor is saying that racial profiling is not going to be tolerated, why has it been tolerated so far?
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